Egyptian Goddess, represented as a woman with the head of a lion or wild cat, she took the less ferocious form of a DOMESTICATED cat in the first millennium, In later periods she was often represented as a regal-looking seated cat, sometimes wearing rings in her ears or nose. In the Ptolemaic period she came to be associated with the Greek goddess Artemis, the divine hunter and goddess of the moon. Majestic or fierce, loyal or sharp, joyful and kind or angry and on edge, powerful, loving.